Wood-Ridge School District
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89 Hackensack Street Wood Ridge, NJ 07075 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Grades | K-12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Superintendent | Joseph Luongo (interim) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Business administrator | Tom Perez | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Schools | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Enrollment | 1,142 (as of 2011-12)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faculty | 79.7 FTEs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Student-teacher ratio | 14.33:1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Wood-Ridge School District is a comprehensive community public school district serving students in pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Wood-Ridge in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's three schools had an enrollment of 1,142 students and 79.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.33:1.[1]
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.[3]
For ninth through twelfth grades, students from Moonachie attend Wood-Ridge High School, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Moonachie School District.[4]
Schools
Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[5]) are:[6]
- Elementary school
- Catherine E. Doyle Elementary School[7] with 511 students in Kindergarten through 5th grade
- Anthony Albro - Principal
- Middle school
- Gretta R. Ostrovsky Middle School[8] with 248 students in grades 6–8
- Robert Recchione - Principal
- High school
- Wood-Ridge High School[9] with 383 students in grades 9–12
- Anthony L. Panico - Principal
Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:[10][11]
- Joseph Luongo - Interim Superintendent of Schools
- Tom Perez - Business Administrator / Board Secretary
References
- 1 2 District information for Wood-Ridge School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 2, 2014.
- ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
- ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 2, 2014.
- ↑ Gavin, John A. "Council tells district to lower student estimates", The Record (Bergen County), May 18, 2010. Accessed November 2, 2014 "The Borough Council wants the one-school district to lower estimates of how many students will attend Wood-Ridge High School, its receiving school, and predictions about how many students will be placed in special education programs outside the district."
- ↑ School Data for the Wood-Ridge School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 2, 2014.
- ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Wood-Ridge Public School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 2, 2014.
- ↑ Catherine E. Doyle Elementary School, Wood-Ridge Public School District. Accessed November 2, 2014.
- ↑ Gretta R. Ostrovsky Middle School, Wood-Ridge Public School District. Accessed November 2, 2014.
- ↑ Wood-Ridge Junior-Senior High School, Wood-Ridge Public School District. Accessed November 2, 2014.
- ↑ Board Profile, Wood-Ridge School District. Accessed November 2, 2014.
- ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Bergen County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 2, 2014.
External links
- Wood-Ridge School District
- Wood-Ridge School District's 2014–15 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- School Data for the Wood-Ridge School District, National Center for Education Statistics
Coordinates: 40°50′41″N 74°05′10″W / 40.844726°N 74.086244°W